Miroslav Volf

Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture

"On Faith" panelist Miroslav Volf holds the Henry B. Wright Chair of Theology at Yale Divinity School and serves as Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. A native of Croatia, he studied at the Evangelical-Theological Faculty in Osijek, Croatia before earning his Masters degree from Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California . He also holds two doctoral degrees from the University of Tubingen, Germany. While teaching at Fuller, theologian Volf wrote Exclusion and Embrace , A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, an exploration of how it is possible to forgive and love our enemies. The book was widely acclaimed as a readable, challenging, and relevant work on the reconciling message of Jesus in a world torn by violence and hatred. It received the 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Religion. Another of Volf's books, Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace was published as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lenten study book for 2006. It explores how we give and forgive in light of God's generosity and Christ's sacrifice for us. Volf's most recent book is The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (2006). Close.